It was listed in the Danish registry of protected buildings and places in 1945. Notable former residents include publisher Frederik Hegel and painter Heinrich Hansen.

Back when Christianshavn was first established, the site was part of a much larger property comprising what is now Overgaden 24–28 and Dronningensgade 17–23.

[1] The present building on the site was constructed some time between 1718 and 1732 for skipper Michel Michelsen Arndt.

104 in Christianshavn Quarter in Copenhagen's first cadastre of 1689 and was at that time owned by clergyman Andreas Guntzow- The property now known as Overgaden Oven Vandet was omdovodiaææy listed as No.

In 1776, he had been granted leave from the navy to captain Den lydige Sophie on a voyage to the Danish West Indies.

The frigate ghad previously belonged to the half brothers Pieter van Hemert and Gysbert Behagen of whom the latter was Holstein's father-in-law.

Hpæstein was most likely related to Marie Christina Holsten (1749–1810), who was married to Peter Applebye Jr.[4] Diedrich Holsteen resided in the building with his wife Petronelle Behagen, two maids, a caretaker and a 14-year-old black boy at the 1787 census.

Hans Vilhelm Riber Schøder )1811-1875), assistant pastor at the Church of Our Saviour, resided on the second floor with his wife Johanne Harder Ammichbøl and one maid.

Johan Frederik Clement, a retailer, resided on the ground floor of the front wing with his wife Anna Margrethe Clement (née Petersen), their three children (aged four to six) and his sister-in-law Ane Hansen (née Larsen).

Johan Anton Hansen, an inspector, resided om one of the second floor apartments with his wife Anna Vilhelmine Hansen (née Toussieng), his mother-in-law Anna Marie Toussieng (née Simonsen) and two lodgers (clerk and sailor).

Jacobine Jensen (née Petersen), a 46-year-old widow seamstress, resided on the first floor of the side wing to the left.

The facade from 1780 features a three-bay-wide slightly projecting median risalit topped by a triangular pediment.

The median risalit disappeared when the front wall was made thicker in connection with a renovation undertaken by captain Bødker in the 1810s.